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Okinawan kills mom for hiding TV remote

Date Posted: 2009-08-20

Yo Onaga was more than angry at his mother after she hid the family’s television remote control from him. He beat her to death.

The 49-year-old is now in jail, charged with beating his mother to death in their Nanji City home. Police say Onaga first went to a local police box and claimed his mother had collapsed and was bleeding. Officers responding to the scene found a somewhat different scene, with Fumi Onaga laying dead in her bedroom.

The 76-year-old woman had been beaten. Police then turned to Onaga, questioning him until he finally admitted he had hit and beaten his mother. Onaga reportedly told police “when she hid the TV remote from me, I just snapped and punched her.”